""unlikely to cooperate" with an Alaskan legislative inquiry into Monegan's firing because it had been "tainted" by politics."

Hey that Guy who was the President of Iraq tried that line too 'the USA invaded my country and appointed you as a puppet Govt, so I refuse to recognise the authority of this court'.

They hung - right after the 'fair trial'...

Oh then there was that other guy in Europe...

This is, of course, ABOVE POLITICS, as all criminals think that way too...